Of course, I'm sure piracy had something to do with it to. Then they would also hate something like what's happened to jailbreaked iphones to happen to their console and have to compete. Once again, bad business decisions to ensure they get all the money they can.

Didn't Sony pull the OtherOS feature after someone couldn't take being behind the hypervisor anymore and found a way to by passed it to get direct hardware access?

So they pull OtherOS after the hypervisor hack. This causes the first hack to restore OtherOS. So they patch the firmware to prevent this. This causes the USB hack to restore OtherOS. So they patch the firmware to prevent this. This causes the whole signing system to be hacked to restore OtherOS. They now have no where to go but the legal route.